Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-12673 · Cirrus Design Corporation Models SR20 and SR22 Airplanes
Cirrus Design Corporation Models SR20 and SR22 Airplanes
Superseded. A later AD replaced this one: AD 2002-24-08. Comply with the one in force.
The Federal Register printed this AD without its applicability text. Read it at the link below.
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Cirrus Design Corporation (Cirrus) Models SR20 and SR22 airplanes. This AD requires you to incorporate temporary operating limitations into the Limitation Section of the airplane flight manual (AFM) for certain affected airplanes and install a cable clamp external to the cone adapter on the Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System (CAPS) activation cable for all affected airplanes. The operating limitations will reduce the need to use the CAPS system in a loss of aircraft control emergency situation. The installation will prevent the cable housing from going into the rocket cone and will allow the rocket to fire correctly. This AD is the result of a report from the manufacturer that certain CAPS may not activate in an emergency situation. The actions specified by this AD are intended to initially limit the chance of failure of the CAPS activation system in an emergency situation and eventually eliminate this potential failure. Failure of this system would result in occupant injury and/or loss of life and loss of aircraft.
The aircraft, engines and makers this AD names, by the model designations in its text. A model listed here may still be outside the AD's serial ranges.
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